City Lights Authors in the News

Beth Lisick talks with Brad Listi about her upcoming book Yokohama Threeway and Other Shames. 

An interview with Sister Spit/City Lights editor and queer icon, Michelle Tea.

Read an excerpt from Forest of a Thousand Daemons by D.O. Fagunwa in Guernica. 

Boghosian addressed the extent to which the US government is actively acquiring personal information on Americans through their phone calls, emails, and Internet usage. She warned that the government now has the means to suppress the most essential tools of democracy. For instance, they have spied on some reporters, and threatened them with charges of espionage and conspiracy. We really have "an affront, not only to the Constitution, but for an open society where we can keep the government in check rather than having them control us," she stated.

On WLRN's "Topical Currents," Boghosian discusses the increase of surveillance on ordinary citizens through technology, and how this benefits commercial entities as well.

Writer Christopher Hennessey from The Gay & Lesbian Review discusses how Frank O'Hara, author of Poems Retrieved, taught us what it means to be "gay." 

The Rumpus features a poem as well as a link to Barbara Berman's review on The Rumpus

Mel Goodman, author of National Insecurity, wrote an op-ed on military spending for Counterpunch. 

Melvin A. Goodman  discusses his book National Insecurity, military spending, and his opinions on the NSA and Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning with Meria Heller on "Talk Radio with Meria Heller."

Ali Liebegott talks about her books, Cha-Ching! and The Beautifully Worthless, Sister Spit and female road narratives with Carmen at Autostraddle. 

Author Ali Liebegott discusses her books The Beautifully Worthless and Cha-Ching! with Evan Karp on Bomblog.

Ali Liebegott talks about her books, Cha-Ching! and The Beautifully Worthless, Sister Spit and female road narratives with Carmen and Ali in Autostraddle.

Author Ali Liebegott discusses her books The Beautifully Worthless and Cha-Ching!  with Evan Karp on Bomblog. 

Michael Long discusses the life of Bayard Rustin and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on KCAA 1050 AM. 

"Michael G. Long, who edited I Must Resist, tells Mother Jones the accolades are long overdue. 'Rustin is finally emerging out of the shadows,' he says. 'This is a man who labored for decades behind the scenes. And he labored there willingly, but he was also pushed there and kept there and confined there by civil rights leaders.'"

"He Stood," a poem from the collection Citizen, was selected as a "poem of the day" by the Academy of American Poets. 

Aaron Shurin's Citizen has been selected as a finalist in the poetry category for the the 82nd annual California Book Award Winners. 

 Clarence Lusane, author of The Black History of the White House, discusses the accuracy of Oprah's and Forest's new film, "The Butler." 

"The new movie 'Lincoln' explores the last months of Abraham Lincoln's life and sheds light on prominent figures of the time. One lesser-known person is former slave Elizabeth Keckley. She became a close confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln. Host Michel Martin speaks with professor Clarence Lusane about Keckley's contributions to American history."